Matches in Wiktionary for { ?s ?p Variant of -l with the original u (lost in most modern Romanian nouns) reappearing at the end of the noun it is attached to as a link to the definite article to make pronunciation smoother. For example, in its evolution from Latin, the word foc probably passed through a phase in early Romanian where it was *focu, but the u only appears now as a part of the definite form, focul (with the definite article suffix -l), corresponding to a Late Vulgar Latin formation *focu illu. The grammatical rule also came to apply to nouns of non-Latin origin after they became part of Romanian (e.g. război > războiul).. }
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- -ul-Romanian hasEtymology "Variant of -l with the original u (lost in most modern Romanian nouns) reappearing at the end of the noun it is attached to as a link to the definite article to make pronunciation smoother. For example, in its evolution from Latin, the word foc probably passed through a phase in early Romanian where it was *focu, but the u only appears now as a part of the definite form, focul (with the definite article suffix -l), corresponding to a Late Vulgar Latin formation *focu illu. The grammatical rule also came to apply to nouns of non-Latin origin after they became part of Romanian (e.g. război > războiul).".
- -ul-Romanian-Suffix hasEtymology "Variant of -l with the original u (lost in most modern Romanian nouns) reappearing at the end of the noun it is attached to as a link to the definite article to make pronunciation smoother. For example, in its evolution from Latin, the word foc probably passed through a phase in early Romanian where it was *focu, but the u only appears now as a part of the definite form, focul (with the definite article suffix -l), corresponding to a Late Vulgar Latin formation *focu illu. The grammatical rule also came to apply to nouns of non-Latin origin after they became part of Romanian (e.g. război > războiul).".